Pachama AI/Satellite Forest MRV

A dated reading of what is claimed, reported, and independently verified in the current evidence.

Current reading

The readiness gap, in one scan

AI-assisted assembly · derived results

Evidence strength Strong

Decision

Human editorial judgment · 2026-06-28

Adopt with guardrails

Why: It is the most mature of the three — established platform since 2018, Verra integration, 46 developers across 14 countries, real acquisition validation — but vendor-disclosed accuracy is unpublished and the underlying remote-sensing science has known saturation limits, so use it with independent ground-truthing.
Next: Pilot Pachama (now Carbon Direct) dMRV against ground-truth on a candidate forest portfolio and require disclosure of per-project accuracy/error bounds — especially in high-biomass stands where remote sensing saturates — before relying on it for credit-grade decisions.

Constraints

No named blocker is present in the current public projection.

Evidence summary

AI-assisted assembly

Counts and dates only. Raw signals, private excerpts, trust records, and internal corpus material are not published here.

Publication record

Initial public reading

This is the initial public reading. No earlier readiness change is recorded.